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The jury of the International Feature Film Competition composed by Nella Banfi (Italy/France), Fabio Ferzetti (Italy), Mike Kaplan (USA), Fernando E. Juan Lima (Argentina), Martina Parenti (Italy) awarded the awards of the fortieth edition of Turin Film Festival.
Best Film (€18,000) is PALM TREES AND POWER LINES by Jamie Dack (USA)
Special Jury Prize (€7,000) at RODEO by Lola Quivoron (France)
Best actress JULIE LEDROU for the film RODEO
Best Actor are JOJO BAPTEISE WHITING and LADAINIAN CRAZY THUNDER for the film WAR PONY by Riley Keough and Gina Gammell (USA)
Best Screenplay to JAMIE DACK & AUDREY FINDLAY for the film PALM TREES AND POWER LINES by Jamie Dack (USA)
Special mention to NAGISA by Takeshi Kogahara (Japan) for the richness and originality of his language
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
The jury of the International Documentary Competition composed of Massimo D’Anolfi (Italy), Uljana Kim (Lithuania), Miguel Valverde (Portugal) awards the prizes:
Best Film IWONDERFULL (€6,000) at RIOTSVILLE, USA by Sierra Pettengill (USA)
Special Jury Prize to: WHERE IS THIS STREET? OR WITH NO BEFORE AND AFTER by João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata (Portugal/France)
Mention to CORSINI INTERPRETA A BLOMBERG Y MACIEL by Mariano Llinás (Argentina) and ELSEWHERE STARTS HERE AND IT’S HAPPENING by Darik Janik (Australia); the jury did not want to give reasons, but would like to underline that all the prizes were chosen unanimously.
ITALIAN DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
The jury of the Italian Documentary Competition, composed of Chiara Bellosi (Italy), Alessandro Rossetto (Italy) and Dario Zonta (Italy), awards the prizes
Best film (€6,000) at CORPO DEI GIORNI of Santabelva (Italy)
Special Jury Prize to: N’EN PARLONS PLUS by Cecile Khindria, Vittorio Moroni
SPACE ITALY | ITALIAN SHORT FILM COMPETITION
The jury of the Italian Short Film Competition composed of Erica Favaro (Italy) Ilaria Feole (Italy), Luisa Porrino (Italy) awards the prizes
Best short film (€2,000) to SIRENS by Ilaria Di Carlo (Germany/Italy) with the following motivation: Like Ulysses enchanted by the sirens, the author chooses a perspective that immerses us in a semblance of a dream, made up of lunar and surreal landscapes, but it confronts us with the arrogance of contemporary man in shaping the environment
Special Jury Prize to: OLD TRICKS by Edoardo Pasquini, Viktor Ivanov (Italy/Bulgaria) with the following motivation: For the brilliant management of the comic rhythm and for the screenplay that hits the target of the short film
Special Mention WITHDRAWN by Gianmarco Di Traglia (Italy) For the good performance of the actors in the staging of the boundary between fiction and reality.
CRAZIES | COMPETITION
The jury of the Crazies Competition composed of Lamberto Bava (Italy), Silvia Pezzopane (Italy) and Carlos Vermut (Spain), awards the prize
Best film to HUESERA di/by Michelle Garza Cervera (Peru/Mexico) with the following motivation: For the unprecedented and disturbing story of (and on) the female body in a horror narrative with dreamlike vibrations, with a protagonist who returns shadows and nonsense
Mention to Greta Santi for her spontaneous and captivating interpretation, which conveys great emotion and intelligence in dealing with the psychological nuances of her character in PANTAFA
COLLATERAL AWARDS
The Rai Cinema Channel Award at the TFF40 goes to OLD TRICKS by Edoardo Pasquini and Viktor Ivanov, with the following motivation: For the excellent ability to stage, in a handful of minutes, a story full of amusing irony, in which a grandfather and a grandmother, during the isolation from covid, kill a very dangerous feeling, boredom. But in an equally dangerous way.
VALDATA AWARD
The jury of TorinoSette readers (Laura Brusa, Giada Maldini, Giuliana Prestipino, Gianluca Medina, Igor Catrano) awards the Achille Valdata award for best feature film to Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s PAMFIR, for the quality of the direction, the beauty of the long shots and actors perfectly adhering to a familiar microcosm allegory of a universal story.
HOLDEN SCHOOL AWARD
Scuola Holden awards the BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD. The work of the jury, made up of Drama college students from the two-year period 2022/2024, was coordinated by screenwriter Aaron Ariotti. The students awarded the Best Screenplay Award to: WAR PONY For the naturalness and originality with which it tells the context of Native Americans in contemporary reservations. For the balance in the management of the two narrative lines. For the coherence of language and character development. For the effective and never excessive use of symbolism. A special mention to: RODEO
GANDHI’S GLASSES AWARD
The jury of the twelfth edition of the Gandhi Eyewear award awards the prize to: MANODOPERA – INTERDIT AUX CHIENS ET AUX ITALIENS by Alain Ughetto through a personal and intimate gaze, the film denounces the violence that generations of Italians have experienced: economic exploitation, war, fascist arrogance, patriarchy; and suggests looking at the present which proposes the same dynamics to us. The construction of the story with clay figures also allows the viewer not to succumb emotionally to the pain of those events. Gives a Special Mention to: PINK – THE SIRENS’ SONG by Isabella Ragonese giving voice to a little-known figure, the film recounts the experience of many. Rosa becomes an example of how oppressed women can regain control of their lives and restore value to it not through violence but by emancipating themselves and escaping the suffocating rules imposed by patriarchal society. He gives a Special Mention to: LA HIJA DE TODAS LAS RABIAS by Laura Baumeister “I don’t feel like playing anymore, mum”. This sentence solves the growth path of a child immersed in a world dominated by economic violence that does not allow her to live her age in a non-violent way. This work, dreamlike but profoundly realistic, becomes a burning social denunciation through the touching experience of the little girl.
INTERFEDI AWARD
The Interfaith Jury, promoted by the Waldensian Church and the Jewish Community of Turin, with the patronage of the Interfaith Committee of the City of Turin, and composed of Walter Nuzzo (Interfaith Committee), Antonio Pennacchia (Walden Church) and Daniele Segre (Jewish Community), awards the ninth edition of the “Award for the respect of minorities and for secularism” to the film DREAMS LIVE IN THE TREETS by Marco Della Fonte with the following motivation: an intense and engaging story in which the director and the two protagonists admirably manage to show us the love as the engine of emancipation from the condition of marginalization, prejudice and discrimination, evoking the symbolic value of nature and spirituality as well.
Turin Film Festival, Palm Trees and Power Lines by Jamie Dack wins